The study of spatial socio-economic development constitutes a significant field of analysis of innovation creation and diffusion. Understanding the spatial evolution of the different socio-economic systems in the age of globalization requires a synthesizing and integrated theoretical approach to how innovation is generated and replicated. This article aims to study three significant spatial socio-economic development theories –the growth poles, the clusters, and the business ecosystems. A literature review reveals that (a) the concept of growth poles concerns mostly the analysis of spatial polarization between specific territories and regions, (b) the clusters concept addresses the issue of developed inter-industrial competition and co-operation from a meso-level perspective, and (c) the analytical field of business ecosystems provides an evolutionary approach that can be valorized for all co-evolving spatial socio-economic organizations. In this context, an eclectically interventional mechanism to strengthen innovation is suggested. The Institutes of Local Development and Innovation (ILDI) policy is proposed for all firms and business ecosystems, of every size, level of spatial development, prior knowledge, specialization, and competitive ability. The ILDI is presented as an intermediate organization capable of diagnosing and enhancing the firm’s physiology in structural Stra.Tech.Man terms (strategy-technology-management synthesis).
Sustaining UK Economic Geography? Business Schools Diaspora Al James
This paper is concerned with the health of Economic Geography (EG) as a sub-discipline, and economic geography (as a wider community of practice) in the UK. Against a backdrop of sub-disciplinary achievement, recent years have witnessed a noticeable migration of economic geographers in the UK from Departments of Geography to academic positions in Business and Management Schools and related research centres. This report examines the scale and significance of this trend, as documented in new survey and interview data generated through research carried out by the Economic Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG (2015-17). We assess the scale of this cross-disciplinary labour mobility evident at all levels of the academic career hierarchy in EG in the UK; explore the underlying motivations and variegated work-life experiences of those making the transition; and consider its implications for teaching, research and new forms of knowledge production in the face of contemporary economic change and upheaval. While economic geography clearly has a healthy appeal to Business and Management as an interdisciplinary community of practice, we raise multiple concerns around the largely uni-directional nature of this ‘movers’ phenomenon, and for the embodied reproduction of our sub-discipline in Departments of Geography in UK universities. In response, we make a number of suggestions for possible interventions to effect positive change.
The concept of growth foci is one of the indispensable strategies for the regional development, which can be applied for the transformation of socio-economic activities of rural and urban settlements.
The growth foci have been identified with the help of certain indicators of administration, communication, education, health, finance, recreation, market and others.
The study of spatial socio-economic development constitutes a significant field of analysis of innovation creation and diffusion. Understanding the spatial evolution of the different socio-economic systems in the age of globalization requires a synthesizing and integrated theoretical approach to how innovation is generated and replicated. This article aims to study three significant spatial socio-economic development theories –the growth poles, the clusters, and the business ecosystems. A literature review reveals that (a) the concept of growth poles concerns mostly the analysis of spatial polarization between specific territories and regions, (b) the clusters concept addresses the issue of developed inter-industrial competition and co-operation from a meso-level perspective, and (c) the analytical field of business ecosystems provides an evolutionary approach that can be valorized for all co-evolving spatial socio-economic organizations. In this context, an eclectically interventional mechanism to strengthen innovation is suggested. The Institutes of Local Development and Innovation (ILDI) policy is proposed for all firms and business ecosystems, of every size, level of spatial development, prior knowledge, specialization, and competitive ability. The ILDI is presented as an intermediate organization capable of diagnosing and enhancing the firm’s physiology in structural Stra.Tech.Man terms (strategy-technology-management synthesis).
Sustaining UK Economic Geography? Business Schools Diaspora Al James
This paper is concerned with the health of Economic Geography (EG) as a sub-discipline, and economic geography (as a wider community of practice) in the UK. Against a backdrop of sub-disciplinary achievement, recent years have witnessed a noticeable migration of economic geographers in the UK from Departments of Geography to academic positions in Business and Management Schools and related research centres. This report examines the scale and significance of this trend, as documented in new survey and interview data generated through research carried out by the Economic Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG (2015-17). We assess the scale of this cross-disciplinary labour mobility evident at all levels of the academic career hierarchy in EG in the UK; explore the underlying motivations and variegated work-life experiences of those making the transition; and consider its implications for teaching, research and new forms of knowledge production in the face of contemporary economic change and upheaval. While economic geography clearly has a healthy appeal to Business and Management as an interdisciplinary community of practice, we raise multiple concerns around the largely uni-directional nature of this ‘movers’ phenomenon, and for the embodied reproduction of our sub-discipline in Departments of Geography in UK universities. In response, we make a number of suggestions for possible interventions to effect positive change.
The concept of growth foci is one of the indispensable strategies for the regional development, which can be applied for the transformation of socio-economic activities of rural and urban settlements.
The growth foci have been identified with the help of certain indicators of administration, communication, education, health, finance, recreation, market and others.
Analysis of factors affecting urban per capita housing area in ChinaIJAEMSJORNAL
Housing problems have become one of the hottest topics, influencing people's livelihood and national economy. This paper intends to re-analyze the per capita housing area, which characterizes the residents' happiness index, in order to measure the basic living condition. Taking into account of the large expansion of the floating population in the process of urbanization, we choose “urban resident population” to amend the “registration population”, which is the denominator of the index. We selected the data of residential investment, urban residents' consumption level and residential completion area from 1978 to 2015 to analyze the influence of independent variables on the per capita housing area, we found the volatility of housing price, which reduces the average level of urban per capita housing empirically.
The OECD supports Habitat III and the New Urban Agenda through several policy agendas, including National Urban Policies, local leadership for inclusive growth in cities, urban governance, subnational finance and organisation, in addition to advancing global goals such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and COP21 through urban policies. For more information see www.oecd.org/gov/habitat-3-and-a-new-urban-agenda.htm
Despite the rise to prominence of sustainable planning, the state of urgency and the pressure imposed by the extreme competition between metropolitan territories reduces sustainability to a market-oriented doctrine for deregulated urban development. The aim of this article is an exploration of the current Athenian urban crisis, by centring on sustainable urban development plans, territorial planning institutions, and urban policies. To this end, the phenomenon of urban crisis is explained as a derivative of the failure of sustainability reforms. By establishing a link between the institutional framework governing urban development and the success or failure of sustainability reforms, this article seeks to contribute to the discussion around the attainability, scope and impact of sustainable urban development plans. Through the hypothesis that as long as territorial planning is used as means towards speculative urban development, it will only be equivalent to that of a real estate facilitating mechanism, it is argued that the urban development model of Athens, as well as the role that institutions have in its shaping, is incompatible with any notion of sustainability. The main contribution of this article is to potentially help towards developing a critical reflection on how projects, plans, territories and sustainability should be approached.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2020), 4(1), 71-78.
https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2020.v4n1-7
A growing body of research explores how different dimensions of high-tech regional economic development are fundamentally
and unavoidably gendered. This article offers a summary introduction to this nascent research agenda, focused on three phenomena widely documented in the regional literature as supporting intra- and interfirm learning and innovation processes, but whose attendant gendered social relations and gender divisions have yet to be fully analysed and understood, namely, (i) processes of worker mobility, labour ‘churning’ and their brokering by different labour market intermediaries; (ii)
venture capital financing, entrepreneurship and firm start-up; and (iii) the origins and implications of (masculinist) corporate cultures for firms’ absorptive capacities. By way of conclusion, the article outlines some interesting directions in which
future research in this area might usefully develop in order to contribute to a broader project around holistic regional (socio)economic development.
Crossing borders: geographical and career path mobilities Borbély-Pecze Bors
This presentation has the following parts;
1. Definitions of mobilities
2. Our recent history in the region
3. Migration from the region and from Hungary
4. New ideas around careers
+1. and a question about our states
Promoting integrated development in the context of demographic changeOECD Governance
Presentation on promoting integrated development at the XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia", 19-20 October 2015, St Petersburg,, Russian Federation, by William Tompson, Senior Counsellor, OECD Regional Development Policy Division.
St Petersburg, 19 October 2015
Professor Janet Dwyer discusses the implications of current issues and policies for rural areas and policy development in the next 25 years, in particular the issues around CAP reform, climate change, innovation and ongoing research needs.
The international-dimension-of-european-urban-policyOECD Governance
Presentation on the inter
Open Days, Brussels, Belgium 6-9 October 2014, presentation on the international dimension of European urban policy by Ioannis Kaplanis, Economist (Urban Programme) Regional Development Policy Division
The Area Units for Employment, Local and Technological Development: A Model f...Territorial Intelligence
Huelva 2007, International Conference of Territorial Intelligence organised in the framework of CAENTI. WORKSHOP 3: Sustainable Territorial Development Studies
Endowed with rapidly changing physical and socio-economic conditions, Semarang City in Central Java Province serves as an interesting case study of Indonesia’s urban transformation. Secondary data, coupled with field observations and in-depth interviews with key informants and experts, were analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative descriptive methods to show complex variations in urban evolution between Semarang’s numerous districts, with changes occurring much faster in some locations than in others. We show that urbanisation proceeds most rapidly where vacant open spaces and investment in various kinds of new public infrastructure are dominant, especially in such districts as Tembalang, Gunungpati, Genuk and Pedurungan. In contrast, transformation processes operate more slowly in Semarang’s saturated inner core.
Analysis of factors affecting urban per capita housing area in ChinaIJAEMSJORNAL
Housing problems have become one of the hottest topics, influencing people's livelihood and national economy. This paper intends to re-analyze the per capita housing area, which characterizes the residents' happiness index, in order to measure the basic living condition. Taking into account of the large expansion of the floating population in the process of urbanization, we choose “urban resident population” to amend the “registration population”, which is the denominator of the index. We selected the data of residential investment, urban residents' consumption level and residential completion area from 1978 to 2015 to analyze the influence of independent variables on the per capita housing area, we found the volatility of housing price, which reduces the average level of urban per capita housing empirically.
The OECD supports Habitat III and the New Urban Agenda through several policy agendas, including National Urban Policies, local leadership for inclusive growth in cities, urban governance, subnational finance and organisation, in addition to advancing global goals such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and COP21 through urban policies. For more information see www.oecd.org/gov/habitat-3-and-a-new-urban-agenda.htm
Despite the rise to prominence of sustainable planning, the state of urgency and the pressure imposed by the extreme competition between metropolitan territories reduces sustainability to a market-oriented doctrine for deregulated urban development. The aim of this article is an exploration of the current Athenian urban crisis, by centring on sustainable urban development plans, territorial planning institutions, and urban policies. To this end, the phenomenon of urban crisis is explained as a derivative of the failure of sustainability reforms. By establishing a link between the institutional framework governing urban development and the success or failure of sustainability reforms, this article seeks to contribute to the discussion around the attainability, scope and impact of sustainable urban development plans. Through the hypothesis that as long as territorial planning is used as means towards speculative urban development, it will only be equivalent to that of a real estate facilitating mechanism, it is argued that the urban development model of Athens, as well as the role that institutions have in its shaping, is incompatible with any notion of sustainability. The main contribution of this article is to potentially help towards developing a critical reflection on how projects, plans, territories and sustainability should be approached.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2020), 4(1), 71-78.
https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2020.v4n1-7
A growing body of research explores how different dimensions of high-tech regional economic development are fundamentally
and unavoidably gendered. This article offers a summary introduction to this nascent research agenda, focused on three phenomena widely documented in the regional literature as supporting intra- and interfirm learning and innovation processes, but whose attendant gendered social relations and gender divisions have yet to be fully analysed and understood, namely, (i) processes of worker mobility, labour ‘churning’ and their brokering by different labour market intermediaries; (ii)
venture capital financing, entrepreneurship and firm start-up; and (iii) the origins and implications of (masculinist) corporate cultures for firms’ absorptive capacities. By way of conclusion, the article outlines some interesting directions in which
future research in this area might usefully develop in order to contribute to a broader project around holistic regional (socio)economic development.
Crossing borders: geographical and career path mobilities Borbély-Pecze Bors
This presentation has the following parts;
1. Definitions of mobilities
2. Our recent history in the region
3. Migration from the region and from Hungary
4. New ideas around careers
+1. and a question about our states
Promoting integrated development in the context of demographic changeOECD Governance
Presentation on promoting integrated development at the XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia", 19-20 October 2015, St Petersburg,, Russian Federation, by William Tompson, Senior Counsellor, OECD Regional Development Policy Division.
St Petersburg, 19 October 2015
Professor Janet Dwyer discusses the implications of current issues and policies for rural areas and policy development in the next 25 years, in particular the issues around CAP reform, climate change, innovation and ongoing research needs.
The international-dimension-of-european-urban-policyOECD Governance
Presentation on the inter
Open Days, Brussels, Belgium 6-9 October 2014, presentation on the international dimension of European urban policy by Ioannis Kaplanis, Economist (Urban Programme) Regional Development Policy Division
The Area Units for Employment, Local and Technological Development: A Model f...Territorial Intelligence
Huelva 2007, International Conference of Territorial Intelligence organised in the framework of CAENTI. WORKSHOP 3: Sustainable Territorial Development Studies
Endowed with rapidly changing physical and socio-economic conditions, Semarang City in Central Java Province serves as an interesting case study of Indonesia’s urban transformation. Secondary data, coupled with field observations and in-depth interviews with key informants and experts, were analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative descriptive methods to show complex variations in urban evolution between Semarang’s numerous districts, with changes occurring much faster in some locations than in others. We show that urbanisation proceeds most rapidly where vacant open spaces and investment in various kinds of new public infrastructure are dominant, especially in such districts as Tembalang, Gunungpati, Genuk and Pedurungan. In contrast, transformation processes operate more slowly in Semarang’s saturated inner core.
Key elements of governance in strategic spatial plan making and plan-impleme...Private
From plans to land change: how strategic spatial planning contributes to the development of urban regions (CONCUR) http://www.wsl.ch/fe/landschaftsdynamik/projekte/CONCUR/index_EN
Oliveira & Hersperger (2016)
Professor Katie Williams - Director of the Centre for Environment and Planning, UWE - delivers a speech to SWO Conference delegates on how through housing planners might help to 'realise prosperity'.
An Adaptive Learning Process for Developing and Applying Sustainability Indicators with Local Communities
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
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This presentation was given by Saffron Woodcraft, keynote speaker at the Asia/Pacific International Conference on Environment-Behaviour Studies (AicE-Bs).
http://fspu.uitm.edu.my/cebs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=227&Itemid=144
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MODULE 3MODULE 3
Quality Assurance and Control
Introduction
SimplilearnTraining's channel (2012). Quality Planning vs Quality Assurance vs Quality Control (Streaming video). Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCgzbYi_Iw8
As project work is executed, project managers make certain that quality assurance is performed
activities that are undertaken to ensure that a project uses the processes needed to meet quality requirements. Quality control entails monitoring specific
project results to determine whether they meet relevant quality standards, which have been defined with the project scope.
For example, in IT projects, factors that can negatively affect the likelihood of success may include advances in technology during the project's execution,
infrastructure changes that impact security and data management, or the risks involved in implementing new technology for the first time. There are various
quality control techniques to ensure the project achieves successful outcomes.
Passionate Project Management. (2014). Project Management Concept #3: Quality Assurance v Quality Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnvDYN8udGM
This module will cover:
Monitoring and Controlling project work, including IT projects.
Tools and techniques for project quality control and quality assurance.
This module will help you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCgzbYi_Iw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnvDYN8udGM
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Identify sources of data required for project quality control.
Explain the difference between standards and regulations.
Apply tools and techniques in monitoring, controlling, measuring and managing project performance and quality to achieve
CULTURAL
POLITICAL
ECONOMY
LECTURER
DR AMIN SAMMAN
Rhind Building, D515
Office hours: Thursday, 14.00–16.00
[email protected]
Please sign up for appointments online
http://www.supersaas.com/schedule/Amin_Samman/Office_Hours
http://city.ac.uk
http://www.supersaas.com/schedule/Amin_Samman/Office_Hours
OUR
APPROACH
The objectives of this module are twofold:
1. To introduce the key concepts, approaches, and debates in
this field
2. To provide an opportunity for in-depth study of the cultural
logics at work in one or more aspect of contemporary
capitalism
The first is meant to enable the second:
• Our core objective is to use these concepts and debates to
study the concrete issues and problems that define the
contemporary cultures of global capitalism
WEEK 1
OUTLINE
1. What is cultural political economy?
2. Economism and beyond
3. Module structure
4. Housekeeping
WHAT IS CULTURAL ...
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MODULE 3MODULE 3
Quality Assurance and Control
Introduction
SimplilearnTraining's channel (2012). Quality Planning vs Quality Assurance vs Quality Control (Streaming video). Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCgzbYi_Iw8
As project work is executed, project managers make certain that quality assurance is performed
activities that are undertaken to ensure that a project uses the processes needed to meet quality requirements. Quality control entails monitoring specific
project results to determine whether they meet relevant quality standards, which have been defined with the project scope.
For example, in IT projects, factors that can negatively affect the likelihood of success may include advances in technology during the project's execution,
infrastructure changes that impact security and data management, or the risks involved in implementing new technology for the first time. There are various
quality control techniques to ensure the project achieves successful outcomes.
Passionate Project Management. (2014). Project Management Concept #3: Quality Assurance v Quality Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnvDYN8udGM
This module will cover:
Monitoring and Controlling project work, including IT projects.
Tools and techniques for project quality control and quality assurance.
This module will help you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCgzbYi_Iw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnvDYN8udGM
26/03/20, 12)58 AMLaureate International Universities
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Identify sources of data required for project quality control.
Explain the difference between standards and regulations.
Apply tools and techniques in monitoring, controlling, measuring and managing project performance and quality to achieve
CULTURAL
POLITICAL
ECONOMY
LECTURER
DR AMIN SAMMAN
Rhind Building, D515
Office hours: Thursday, 14.00–16.00
[email protected]
Please sign up for appointments online
http://www.supersaas.com/schedule/Amin_Samman/Office_Hours
http://city.ac.uk
http://www.supersaas.com/schedule/Amin_Samman/Office_Hours
OUR
APPROACH
The objectives of this module are twofold:
1. To introduce the key concepts, approaches, and debates in
this field
2. To provide an opportunity for in-depth study of the cultural
logics at work in one or more aspect of contemporary
capitalism
The first is meant to enable the second:
• Our core objective is to use these concepts and debates to
study the concrete issues and problems that define the
contemporary cultures of global capitalism
WEEK 1
OUTLINE
1. What is cultural political economy?
2. Economism and beyond
3. Module structure
4. Housekeeping
WHAT IS CULTURAL.
Critical Approaches to the Concept of Sustainable DevelopmentAI Publications
It has been observed that while living in harmony with nature on earth until the industrial revolution, with the industrial production and consumption society formed after the industrial revolution, humanity has started to dominate nature more and the damage caused to nature has increased. Economic growth, contrary to expectations, increasing inequality in the distribution of income, the impoverishment of the broad masses of the natural environment in the emergence of problems such as destruction of natural resources, growth and development of the concept of sustainable development has revealed the new concept. Sustainable development suggests that both economic development can continue and the ecological system can be protected; the contradiction between the environment and development will disappear. The concept of sustainable development has been considered to be able to solve many country problems since its first appearance, and has been applied to many fields such as economics, politics, the environment and social culture. In fact, there are many aspects of the concept of sustainable development that are open to criticism. The aim of this study is to address the criticisms brought to the concept with a collective perspective. For this purpose, the criticisms brought to the concept of sustainable development based on the previous studies conducted on the subject were examined. It is thought that the study will contribute to the literature by eliminating the lack of a critical perspective on sustainable development in this way.
Marcas territoriais como um instrumento do planeamento territorial estratégicoPrivate
A principal linha de raciocínio postulada neste documento e nos artigos académicos que lhe
deram origem - place branding como um instrumento do planeamento estratégico territorial - é uma
linha de raciocínio e de investigação que pretende ir muito mais além do que a escala regional.
Procura também distanciar-se da abordagem baseada em princípios e conceitos do branding e
marketing corporativos que continuam a dominar o discurso contemporâneo em place branding.
Importa ainda sublinhar que a linha de raciocínio exacerbada nesta tese não pretende menosprezar
ou desvalorizar o valor de uma abordagem mais próxima aos conceitos dos negócios, como branding
e marketing corporativos, mas visa sim complementá-la e enriquecê-la - explorando uma abordagem
mais geográfica-territorial ao place branding que pode introduzir mais eficácia, ser mais justa e
socialmente mais responsável.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
4. Housekeeping rules
Brief on economic geography (EG)
Teaching strategy
About WiGeo
Specific aims
Schedule
Key references & sources
Defining EG
The history of EG
Current strands of reasoning
Evolutionary economics
Evolutionary governance
Seminar details
Today’s lecture
5. Housekeeping rules
10:15 – 11:45 = 90 minutes lectures (Zoom)
2x 5 minutes break > strategically selected
This is a co-created and interactive territory
I ask for everyone’s cooperation
Mute v.s. Unmute your Mic.
Share with us your questions throughout
mainly via chat (or voice if you prefer), EN/DE
Continue the debate beyond the lecture (email)
6. Overall aim of this EEG Module
To understand
better
economic
geography
through
evolutionary
perspectives
7. Economic Geography in Brief
Geography can be
defined as the why and
so what of where.
--
In economic geography
the where, why, and so
what questions are
focused on
understanding
economy in territories
or organization
economic landscape.
(Clark et al. 2017)
10. Start today thinking about your topic
regions
strategy
Related and unrelated
Clusters
governance
evolution
Regional resilience
Corporate strategies
industrial dynamics
dependencies
Place-based
Supply-chains
growth
geographic inequalities
entrepreneurship
11. How?
Drawing connections
between textual
arguments and the key
concepts BUT important
is your own interests
Creating your line of
Reasoning > your line of
thinking and go along
Position yourself
Select appropriate
literature
Think beyond Anglophone
12. Teaching strategy
To doubt
To think
To think geographically
To communicate
To question
To be aware of social constructs
To make mistakes
To learn from mistakes
To have fun while learning.
13. Teaching strategy
Research-drive teaching > examples
A relaxing atmosphere
Informative slides, including hyperlinks
Read the literature shared via
OpenOlat
Think critically and independently
Share your thoughts
Support constructive debates
14. You'll find the latest publications of the Working Group Economic Geography here
Our understanding of Economic Geography
Economic dynamics
across scales
Involving players
16. A relational perspective,
because economic actors do
not act in isolation.
An evolutionary
perspective, because
economic actors do not act
without a history.
An institutional perspective,
because institutions affect
decisions of economic actors.
Theoretical perspectives
18. Aims of this module
• Advancing knowledge on Evolutionary Economic Geography
(EEG) through multidisciplinary perspective
• How evolutionary narratives of EG intersect with the
governance of cities and regions (Boschma et al. 2017);
• How EEG articulates and contributes to the
operationalization of EG concepts (place-based, clusters);
• Drawing synergies (+ aspects) and trade-offs (-) between
EEG and strategic thinking, alternative growth models.
In-depth exploration of EEG key concepts and theories
applicable to economic and social development across
spatial scales (from local to global). (Chen & Hassink, 2020)
19. Think geographically but multidisciplinary
Cocoa supply chain
Production
Consumption
Distribution
Beyond
Communities
Human rights
cocoa-barometer 2021
20. Economic geography and sustainability
https://greenworldwarriors.com/tag/logging/
Deforestation hotspots
22. 1) 22-04: Introduction
2) 27-04: Evolutionary Economic Geography within Grand
Societal Challenges
3) 29-04: Industrial Dynamics, Clusters and Niches, Green-
Entrepreneurship and Socio-Economic Transformation of
Industrial Towns
4) 04-05: Path Development and Path Dependence, Lock-Ins,
Co-Production Processes of Transformation and Regional
Structural Change
Lectures, April, May, June 2021
Tuesday, 10:15 – 11:45 | Thursday, 10:15 – 11:45
OLAT
OLAT
OLAT
OLAT
(Zoom)
23. 5) 06-05: Resilience Thinking and Resilience Strategies,
Economic Dynamics along an Urban-Rural Gradient
6) 11-05: Constructing Regional Advantage, Related and
Unrelated Variety
7) 18-05: Evolutionary Economic Geography and Place-Based
Regional Policies, the Entrepreneurial Region
8) 20-05: Strategic Thinking in Regional Development, Strategic
Spatial Planning and Regional Attractiveness Strategies
Lectures, April, May, June 2021
Tuesday, 10:15 – 11:45 | Thursday, 10:15 – 11:45
OLAT
OLAT
OLAT
OLAT
24. 9) 25-05: Social Capital and Corporate Spatial Responsibility,
Strategic Coupling and Sustainability Transitions
10) 27-05: Conceptualisation, and Implementation of Smart
Specialisation Strategies in Today’s Globalized World
11) 01-06: New Directions in Economic Geography: Classic
versus Alternatives Concepts and Practices of Economic
Growth and Regional Development
Examination
Tuesday, 03 of August 2021
(Zoom)
Seminar
25/26/27 June & 2nd July
(RH and EO)
Lectures, April, May, June 2021
Tuesday, 10:15 – 11:45 | Thursday, 10:15 – 11:45
OLAT
OLAT
OLAT
25. The quality of the material you are reading
https://scholar.google.com/ http://www.webofknowledge.com/ https://www.semanticscholar.org/
EU Science Hub
http://econ.geo.uu.nl/peeg/peeg.html
https://www.circle.lu.se/
26. Few important references to keep in mind
• Flor Avelino, Erasmus University of Rotterdam
• Anna Davis, The University of Dublin
• Julia Affolderbach, University of Trier
• Heike Mayer, University of Bern
• Simona Iammarino, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Lars Coenen, Western Norway University of Applied
• Bernhard Truffer, Eawag
• Teis Hansen, Lund University
• Sebastian Fastenrath, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute
• Boris Braun, University of Cologne
• Ron Boschma, Utrecht University
• Koen Frenken, Utrecht University
• Christian Schulz, Heidelberg University
• David Gibbs, University of Hull
• James Murphy, Clark University
• Canfei He, Peking University
• Christian Binz, Eawag
27. Few important sources to keep in mind
Academic Journals:
• Research Policy, Impact Factor (IF): 5.3
• Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, IF 8.4
• Global Environmental Change, IF 10.4
• Regional Environmental Change, IF 3.4
• Economic Geography; IF 8.2
• Journal of Economic Geography, IF 3,2
• Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, IF 4.4
• Ecology & Society, IF 4,4
• Papers in Economic Geography and Innovation Studies
• Regional Studies, IF 3.3
• Regional Studies, Regional Science
• European Planning Studies, IF 2.2
28. Defining economic geography
Research that examines how economic processes
intersect with the geographical organization of society.
(Sheppard & Barnes 2017)
The study of geographically specific factors that shape
economic processes and identify key agents (firms, labour,
state) and drivers (such as innovation, institutions and
entrepreneurs) that prompt uneven territorial
development and enable change (Aoyama et al. 2011)
As such, it involves the processes of production,
consumption, distribution, and exchange, in the formal
and informal economy (Clark et al, 2017).
30. What factors explain persistent poverty in global cities
such as New York, London, Lagos and Tokyo,
What prompted the emergence of vast urban slums in
Calcutta?
EG: examples
What are the impacts of globalization on people’s jobs and
livelihoods across the world?
31. Central to the work of E. Geographers
Explaining causes and consequences of uneven
development, regional inequalities manifested across
territories is a central concern for economic geographers.
Sustainability of development trajectories
32. Economic geographers emphasize that identifying
and analyzing the various networks of linkages
and flows across space is essential premise to
understand economic landscapes.
Understanding the economic landscape
(Hassink and Gong, 2017)
33. Current strands of reasoning in EG
Commodity production:
Evolutionary approach (firm;
enterprises; entrepreneurship);
Relational approach (regional scale);
Place-based approaches;
Global production networks:
Industry development in space
Global innovation systems of
industries
Diversification / clusters / Niches
Supply chains
Consumption:
Public procurements
User-driven sustainability
Circular economy
Slow innovation and slow
consumption
34. Evolutionary economic geography
Which of the theoretical notes from
evolutionary economics are useful to tackle
key questions in economic geography?
35. Historical perspective
Charles Darwin, 1859
Thorstein Veblen, 1899
Joseph Schumpeter, 1911
Richard Nelson and Sidney G. Winter, 1982 An
Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change
Evolutionary economic theory (Nelson, 2013)
Neo-Schumpeterian School (Hanusch & Pyka, 2007)
36. Evolutionary biology
Heritage
Selection
Mutation
Co-evolution
The local dimension
Evolutionary biology and economics
Economic thinking
Heritage => Routines
Skills, learning-by-doing, tacit knowledge,
sunk costs, switching costs
Selection => Competition
Selection environment, market structure,
capital market, institutions, spatial structure
Mutation => Innovation
Co-evolution => co-production
The local dimension => place-
based policies, clusters etc.
37. Evolutionary economics
• Optimality through rational
choice
• Ahistorical and reversible
• Representative agent
• Equilibrium
Evolutionary economics vs.
neoclassical theory
Neoclassical theory
• Sub-optimality
through bounded
rationality
• Path-dependent and
irreversible
• Heterogeneity of
agents
• Processes of change
38. Innovation and technological development
Types of technological change
• Incremental innovations
• Basic innovations
• Techno-economic revolutions
• Techno-economic paradigms
Entrepreneurial discourse
39. Joseph Schumpeter
1939: Business cycles: a theoretical historical and statistical
analysis of the capitalist process
Mark I => entrepreneurs, creative destruction etc.
1943: Capitalism, socialism and democracy
Mark II => R&D in large enterprises
Innovation and technological development
One of the first scholar to theorize about entrepreneurship
Schumpeter identified innovation as the critical dimension
of economic change
40. Analyses and explains “the
processes by which the economic
landscape – the spatial organisation
of economic production, circulation,
exchange, distribution and
consumption – is transformed from
within over time” (Boschma &
Martin 2010, 6).
Evolutionary economic geography
41. As Boschma and Martin (2007) put it, evolutionary economic
geography is concerned with the spatialities of economic
novelty (innovations, new firms, new industries, new networks),
with how the spatial structures of the economy emerge from
the micro-behaviours of economic agents (individuals, firms,
organisations); with how, in the absence of central coordination
or direction, the economic landscape exhibits self-organisation;
and with how the processes of path creation and path
dependence interact to shape geographies of economic
development and transformation, and why and how such
processes may themselves be place dependent.
Evolutionary economic geography
42. Evolutorische Wirtschaftsgeographie und
Innovationsgeographie
Die Motivation zur Entwicklung der
Evolutorischen Ökonomik war eine
zunehmende Unzufriedenheit mit den
vorherrschenden neoklassischen
ökonomischen Gleichgewichtsmodellen in
der Ökonomik. Diese basieren u. a. auf
einigen sehr zentralen Annahmen. Zum
Beispiel, dass sich die Wirtschaft in einem
permanenten Gleichgewicht befi ndet bzw.
dass sie einen solchen Zustand zu jeder Zeit
anstrebt und Ungleichgewichtsphasen,
wenn überhaupt, nur für kurze Zeit
existieren können.
43. Evolutionary understandings of
Governance & power relations
Perspective on the way societies, markets
and governance evolve. It integrates concepts
and insights from various theoretical sources
into a new coherent framework.
Governance is never a matter of a few
people taking decisions. There are always
other actors who need to comply with rules,
who need to understand orders, others who
need to cooperate, to advise. Beunen, Van Assche, Duineveld 2014
44. The term governance itself is often associated with the supposed
shift from government to governance, a supposed change in
western societies from central steering and expert-driven
decision-making to more participatory forms of democracy.
Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT)
EGT can thus see the middle ground as more than that. It can
understand the supposed polarities of market and state as
mythologized polarities, and rather than two poles and a middle
ground, it can map out and compare pathways of governance, in
which market, state and law relate in different ways, in which
interventions of different sorts are more or less likely to emerge
and have more or less impact.
Beunen, Van Assche, Duineveld 2014
45. “why it is that some regional economies become
locked into development paths that lose dynamism,
whilst other regional economies seem able to avoid
this danger” (Martin and Sunley 2006, 395).
Evolutionary economic geography deals with the
uneven distribution of economic activity across space,
and how that evolves over time.
Summary of today’s lecture
46. Summary of today’s lecture, EEG
(Boschma and Frenken, 2006).
Assumes the behaviour and success of firms to be dependent
primarily on the routines a firm (or its founder) has built up in the
past (path dependence)
Views the traditional determinants of firm (location) behaviour as
being price signals (neoclassical) and place-specific institutions as
conditioning the range of possible (location) behaviours
Views institutions as primarily influencing innovation in a generic
sense, and as co-evolving with technologies over time across
different regions
Describes the spatial evolution of sectors and networks as a
dynamic co-evolutionary process transforming spaces
EEG explains regional economic development from the dynamics
of structural change at the level of sectors, networks and
institutions at multiple territorial levels
47. Seminar
25, 26, 27 June and 2 July
Presentation:
15 – 20 min. in German or in English
5 min. discussant
15 min. discussion
Written essay (paper):
max. 3,500 words excluding references
line spacing 1.5
Eduardo Oliveira
oliveira@geographie.uni-kiel.de
Office hours via Zoom (with waiting room)
(Every Wednesday upon email > 16:00 - 18:00)
Robert Hassink
hassink@geographie.uni-kiel.de
(office hours)
48. Seminar > Time Table
Until 1st of June (final lecture) > first talk about your topic by e-mail or office
hours (Eduardo Oliveira - Robert Hassink)
Until 8th of June > deadline for submission of presentation topic by e-mail
Until 15th of June (10 days before presentation) > submission of structure, aim,
abstract (max. 150 words) + list of references to us by e-mail
17th and 18th June > one-to-one consultation (email or office hours)
Until 21st of June (3 days prior to presentation) > submission of extended
abstract (max. 1,500 words + list of references as PDF) > we will send this to all
participants by e-mail (please read and be ready to discuss)
21 days after presentation: submission of final paper of max. 3,500 words
excluding references cited in the paper via e-mail and as PDF.
June > presentations > 25, 26, 27 June and 2 July
49. Collective presentation guidelines
25, 26, 27 June and 2 July
> specific schedule details will follow <
Persuasive speech that you use to spark interest in
what your work is about and why it matters
15 - 20 minutes your talk + collective discussion
(detailed schedule few days before via email + OLAT)
Use Plain Language
Keep It Simple and Short
https://academicpositions.be/career-advice/how-to-write-an-elevator-pitch
50. Regional resilience thinking and processes of socio-economic
transformation
Innovation in adapting and responding to the grand societal
challenges e.g. EEG v.s. energy transition
In-depth reflection of spatial implications of EEG e.g. path
creation and the emergence of new industries in space
Policy solutions to overcome causes and consequences of
uneven development e.g. supply chains; circular economy
EEG and tourism, creative industry, sustainability transitions
The role of spin-offs and start-ups in regional development
Regional systems of innovation and high-/clean-tech clusters
Topic areas – few ideas only
51. Lecture 1 - Introduction: economic geography and its recent paradigms
Thank you
Questions?
See you on 27-04 (Tuesday): Evolutionary
Economic Geography within Grand Societal
Challenges (OLAT / Zoom)